Katherine Ann Power is 74 years old and happily married to her wife of 15 years. She’s a proud grandmother. She has just gotten her hair cut, and on this […]
Books & Poetry
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
Bending Gender, Genre, and Reality’s Fabric
In Isle McElroy’s fiction, identity is volatile, permeable, and relational
In a country of unpredictable roving “man hordes” reported to have “mowed twenty-six lawns in Drain, Illinois” and “kicked a German shepherd to death in Plano, Texas,” a canceled feminist […]
PROVINCETOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
A Maiden Voyage for an ‘Aging Pervert’
Janet W. Hardy’s radical queer savvy comes to Provincetown
By a strange twist of fate, the Provincetown Book Festival, hosted by the public library and running Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 this year, always seems to happen the same […]
BOOKS
Alice Hoffman Sounds an Echo of Hawthorne’s Warning
Her latest novel is a meditation on The Scarlet Letter
Alice Hoffman’s short story titled “Property Of” was published in the prestigious literary journal American Review: The Magazine of New Writing in 1975 when Hoffman was 23. I read the […]
THE INTERVIEW
How Patti Hartigan Came to Write August Wilson’s Story
The longtime arts journalist finished her biography of the playwright in Provincetown
Eight years ago, the arts journalist and critic Patti Hartigan noticed something missing from the cultural landscape. August Wilson, a playwright whose works she cherished and had written about for […]
EARS WIDE OPEN
Poetry for the People, by the People
A spontaneous evening at the People’s Poetry Parlor
On a mid-August night, amateur and published poets, locals and tourists, pour into the Somerset House Inn in downtown Provincetown and take seats on an array of couches and deep […]
BOOKS
Raising the Spirits of the Living and Dead
Adam Berry’s book on coping with grief
Adam Berry arrived in Provincetown 20 years ago as a Boston Conservatory sophomore to star in the Provincetown Theater Company’s production of Hair. An Alabama native, he didn’t know anything about […]
WORDS
Tyne and the Town
Emmy and Tony-winning actress Tyne Daly in three evenings of benefit readings
Tyne Daly might be best known to a certain generation of audiences for her costarring role as down-to-earth cop and working mom Mary Beth Lacey in the mid-1980s television show […]
BOOKS
Escaping Virginia: The Education of Drew Gilpin Faust
Harvard’s first woman president talks about her about-to-be-published memoir
“Dear Mr. Eisenhower, I am nine years old and I am white.” These were the opening words of a letter protesting racism in American public education that Catharine Drew Gilpin […]
DISMANTLING FATPHOBIA
Anastasia Kidd Preaches Fat Liberation
The author of Fat Church sees the industrial diet complex as a system of oppression
Anastasia Kidd’s new book, Fat Church: Claiming a Gospel of Fat Liberation, fearlessly tackles the American industrial diet complex and unravels the threads of structural fatphobia. With persuasive data and […]
FICTION
From Pakistan and Mexico to the Outer Cape
Novelist Marina Budhos brings asylum seekers from the global south to Wellfleet
You don’t expect a book about a teenage Pakistani asylum seeker, separated from her mother by the capriciousness of U. S. immigration authorities, and an unaccompanied refugee from gang violence […]
MEMOIR
Chasten Buttigieg Speaks Up for LGBTQ Youth
Mayor Pete’s husband makes a return trip to Provincetown
Chasten Buttigieg first visited Provincetown in July 2019 with his husband, Pete Buttigieg, then the mayor of South Bend, Ind. Pete was one of 23 candidates seeking the Democratic nomination […]
BOOKS
A Novel Set in a Year of Deep Anxiety
Adrienne Brodeur’s second book is a compelling Cape Cod family tale
Little Monsters delivers an elusive prize for those summering on the Cape: a book whose family drama is interwoven into the Cape’s microclimates, as inseparable from the landscape as mushrooms […]
BOOKS
On the Road With Richard LeBlond
In Homesick for Nowhere, the former Advocate columnist is a companionable guide
I’ve never been a fan of most travel writing. The older I get, the more comfortable my couch, the more set my ways, the more satisfied I am to stay […]
BOOKS
A Tall Ship and an Oscar-Winning Movie
Will Sofrin’s ocean adventure on the frigate of Master & Commander
When Will Sofrin called an ex-girlfriend after two decades to say he wanted to write his first book about a once-in-a-lifetime adventure they’d shared, it was awkward. She told him: […]
